Studies of Nature, Volume 1J. Mawman, 1809 - Natural history |
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Page xxix
... elevation which facilitates their course . Not only are the iees from which they proceed very con siderably elevated over the Hemisphere , but the Poles have themselves a great elevation of soil . I ground this assertion , in the first ...
... elevation which facilitates their course . Not only are the iees from which they proceed very con siderably elevated over the Hemisphere , but the Poles have themselves a great elevation of soil . I ground this assertion , in the first ...
Page xxx
... elevation of ten fathoms and five feet , whereas in Sweden you have to ascend only teni fathom one foot and six inches to make the mercury sink one line . The Atmosphere of Sweden therefore is not so high as that of Paris , and ...
... elevation of ten fathoms and five feet , whereas in Sweden you have to ascend only teni fathom one foot and six inches to make the mercury sink one line . The Atmosphere of Sweden therefore is not so high as that of Paris , and ...
Page xxxi
... elevation of the Sun in the very refractive Atmosphere of Nova Zembla , and the other half to the real elevation of the Observer above the Horizon of the Pole . Barents accordingly observed from Nova Zembla the Sun in the Equator , just ...
... elevation of the Sun in the very refractive Atmosphere of Nova Zembla , and the other half to the real elevation of the Observer above the Horizon of the Pole . Barents accordingly observed from Nova Zembla the Sun in the Equator , just ...
Page xxxvi
... elevation , " which must be about six marine leagues and a half quite round the Earth , and every where at an equal " distance from both Poles . " 66 We here see the strange consequence deduced at once from the flattening of the Earth ...
... elevation , " which must be about six marine leagues and a half quite round the Earth , and every where at an equal " distance from both Poles . " 66 We here see the strange consequence deduced at once from the flattening of the Earth ...
Page xxxvii
... elevation at the Poles . I shall not here repeat what I have already said respecting the height of those ices which are discovered floating at the extremities of their cu- polas , the elevation of which extends to twelve , nay , to fif ...
... elevation at the Poles . I shall not here repeat what I have already said respecting the height of those ices which are discovered floating at the extremities of their cu- polas , the elevation of which extends to twelve , nay , to fif ...
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Page 45 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Page 161 - God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged ; the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained ; and the waters returned from off the earth continually : and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
Page 168 - When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it, And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, And said, "Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Page 168 - Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the corner-stone thereof, when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Page 169 - Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days ; and caused the day-spring to know his place, that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it? It is turned as clay to the seal ; and they stand as a garment.
Page 169 - Have the gates of death been opened unto thee ? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death ? Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth ? declare if thou knowest it all.
Page 169 - Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all. Where is the way where light dwelleth ? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof, that thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?
Page 124 - The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; Even the waters forgotten of the foot; They are dried up, they are gone away from men.
Page 168 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
Page 161 - While the earth remaineth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.